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8 Mile review

Posted : 6 months ago on 29 May 2009 02:02 (A review of 8 Mile)

With a 9/10, 8 Mile surprised me surely a damn lot. Not only that it was an amazing movie, also that I never knew Em could actually act in movies. Haha.
What I loved most in the movie was the Rap Battles, and the conflicts between Em and his mom. Not as an insult the last phrase.
This wouldn't really be recognized as a movie for kids, due to repititive sex scenes and frequent use of vulgar language. If not for that, this movie would easily be a family movie, sad its not.


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Meet the Fockers review

Posted : 1 year ago on 1 November 2008 04:08 (A review of Meet the Fockers)

I wasn’t expecting much from Meet the Fockers, a sequel to 2000’s pretty successful comedy Meet the Parents in which jokes about bad last names are made. While I like watching Ben Stiller suffer, I’ve seen him humiliated so much, it’s begun to give me tired head. But Meet the Fockers is a pleasant surprise. It carries on a lot of the same gags from the first film, but freshens things up by make the jokes about more than how many ways there are to sizzle Stiller’s Gaylord Focker.

At first things are going uncharacteristically well for Gay. He, along with fiancée Pam (Teri Polo) are headed to the home of her parents the Burns, where they will take a flight to Miami for a pre-wedding meeting between the two families. On their way to the airport a stranger offers to give Gay and Pam his cab. All the lights turn green for them and a ticket screw up lands them in first class where the evil stewardess from the previous film treats our Focker like royalty. After a bit of jostling in which Pam’s father convinces them all to take his massive, tank-like RV to Miami instead of a plane, we’re introduced to Gay’s parents the Fockers, who in an unexpectedly inspired bit of casting are played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand. The film quickly returns to familiarly uncomfortable territory, as the two families’ different ideologies clash and Stiller tells ridiculous lies to cover up for his own parents’ oddities.
Aside from a few moments of embarrassing humiliation at the hands of Jack Burns, Stiller comfortably takes a side seat as more of a reaction man while Gay and Pam’s parents handle most of the comedic heavy lifting. For instance, his mother is a sex therapist who likes talking openly to the Burns about her family’s sexual history. Doing so is prone to make Stiller fall backwards out of his chair. His constant state of paranoia is for the most part justified, his attempts to hide his family’s oddities understandable in the face of his father-in-law’s manic, judgmental, over-protectivity.

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Criminal Red Hood?

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 29 March 2008 12:55 (A review of Hoodwinked!)

The first time I watched this with my baby brother I didn't get the story line. After I started from the beginning to the end - I understood, it was as funny and as crazy as ever! My baby bro always chose that movie when he was having lunch, and I enjoyed it, with some episodes the most, like when the fan hit the grandmother's Parachute, or how the hamster or whatever found "Candles", which were revealed as "DYNAMITE".

This is one of the movies I enjoyed MORE than some boring old movies...

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Sweet November review

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 29 March 2008 12:47 (A review of Sweet November)

Depicting a cutesy meeting by two polar opposite, the first reel very much belongs to a schlocky romantic comedy. Nelson Moss (Reeves), a self-centered, workaholic exec who lives by his cell-phone, represents everything that's despised by Sara Deever (Theron), a modern-day hippie-flower girl. They meet in the offices of the DMV, where both take a driving test. Arriving with a bag full of groceries, which of course gets spilled so that she can display her shapely body, Sara grabs Nelson's immediate attention. Exchange of looks and words causes Sara to flunk her test, and Nelson reluctantly becoming her chauffeur. Helpless Sara needs a ride to Oakland--this in a city like San Francisco, where public transportation is one of the best in the country. Never mind.

Not really good.

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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children review

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 29 March 2008 12:44 (A review of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children)

This film is for the fans: "To those who loved this world once before and spent time with its friends, gather again and devote your time..." Besides this ominous opening, the story was not very hard to follow, and Ihave never played a Final Fantasy game. I think it pays to be familiar with Role Playing Games in general; knowledge of the genre kinda helps you grasp some of it better. I think though that if you pay attention, and accept what the film throws at you, it's quite easy to understand. There is a lot that isn't explicitly explained, and if you demand that it should be then you will probably be confused and irritated.



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